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The Tryal of Mary Blandy…, 1752

The tryal of Mary Blandy, spinster; for the murder of her father, Francis Blandy, gent. At the assizes held at Oxford.. on Saturday the 29th of February, 1752. Before the Honourable Heneage Legge, Esq.; and Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe...Published by permission of the judges. 46 pp. (London, 1752).

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Four pamphlets on the case of Mary Blandy, who was hanged in 1752 for poisoning her father with arsenic in Oxford, England. Francis Blandy had disapproved of his daughter’s relationship with Captain William Cranstoun.


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